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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1898. 



ELAPS FULVIUS Linnaeus. 



Elaps fiilvius FiTZiNGER, N. Class. Rept., 1826, p. 61.— Holbrook, N. Amer. Herp., 

 1st ed., 1838, p. 87, pi. xviii ; 2il ed.. Ill, 1842, p. 19, pi. x.— Baird and Girard, 

 Cat. N. Anier. Rept., Ft. 1, Serp.,1853, p. 21.— Dumeril and Bibron, Erp. 

 Gen., VII, 1854, p. 1215.— Gunther, Cat. Colubr. Snakes Brit. Mus., 1858, p. 

 235. — Cope, Check-list N. Amer. Batr. Rept., 1875, p. 34. 



Coluber fulvius Linn^us, Syst. Nat., 1, 1766, p. 381. — Gmelin, Linn. Syst. Nat., 

 13th ed. , I, Ft. 3, 1788, p. 1104. 



Fipera fill via Harlan, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Fhila., V, 1827, p. 364, 



Elaps tener Baird and Girard, Cat. N. Amer. Rept., Ft. 1., Serp., 1853, p. 22. 



E. tristis Baird and Girard, Cat. N. Amer. Rept., Ft. 1, Serp., 1853, p. 23. 



Fig. 321. 



Elaps fulvius Linn^us. 



= 1. 



South Carolina. 



Cat. No. 8813, U.S.N.M. 



Scales in fifteen longitudinal rows rather wide, a little narrower about 

 the median line. Head oval, a little convex laterally; muzzle short, 

 wide; eye very small. Rostral plate not prominent, about as high as 

 wide (excluding notch for tongue). Internasals about one-third the 

 size of the prefrontals. Frontals wider than superciliaries, with straight 

 anterior border, and posterior apex considerably produced between 

 parietals. Parietals short but longer than wide. Prenasal deeper in 

 front thau postnasal; postnasal longer, its superior posterior border 

 descending. Oculars, 1-2 ; preocular with prefrontal border descending 

 forward and meeting prefrontal border of nasal; its superior angle 

 widely removed from the frontal. Superciliary short, truncate ante- 

 riorly and posteriorly, but longer than wide. Temporals, 1-1. Superior 

 labials seven, all higher than long except the seventh, which is as long 

 as high; the eye over the third and fourth. Inferior labials seven, the 

 fourth largest. Postgeneials short, longer than progeueials. 



The tail varies in length from six and two-thirds to eight and one- 



